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Gentleman's Blood: A History of Dueling from Swords at Dawn to Pistols at Dusk

Cover of book Gentleman's Blood: A History of Dueling from Swords at Dawn to Pistols at Dusk by Barbara Holland

Bathsheba Crane describes the town of Westminster, Vermont. She extols the virtues of Vermont and its people, as well as its beautiful landscape. She…

A Well-Constituted Memorial

Washington Post article written on the George Mason Memorial at the time of dedication

Join, or Die

Join, or Die engraving attributed to Benjamin Franklin, from his Pennsylvania Gazette, dated May 9 1754. Considered one of the first political…

December 14th, 1859Resolution to form Senate Committee to Investigate the Harper's Ferry Invasion

Transcriptions of the floor minutes in which the Senate debated and deliberated on a resolution, submitted by Senator James Mason of Virginia, to form…

Washington's adoration of his Mulatto Billy

This account shows Washington's perspective on his man "Mulatto Billy" as he calls him.

Sketch of the siege of the Susquehannock fort on the Potomac River in 1675.

This is a sketch of the Susquehannock fort on the Potomac River in 1675. It was under siege by Virginia and Maryland colonists for 7 weeks and then…

OLD GUNSTON HALL: George Mason's Eighteenth Century Home Has Been Restored and Reopened

Newspaper accounting formal opening of Gunston Hall to public

Bald Eagle's on Mason Neck

Photograph showing an adult and juvenile bald eagle in a nest on the Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck Wildlife Refuge.

A sermon preached before the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the state of Virginia.

A sermon by James Madison, president of William and Mary, on Protestantism. He offers his views on how religion can become corrupted and how to combat…